Wednesday, January 17, 2018

ICE Targets Activists—Take Action!

There can now be little doubt that Immigration and
Customs Enforcement is targeting immigration activists and their families
for detention and deportation. Today's Democracy Now! program, linked to below, devoted
much of its time to coverage of these cases. We are also providing links to
other coverage.

It’s important to stay informed, but it’s just as
important to act. New Yorkers can support Jean Montrevil and Ravi Ragbir on
Thursday, January 18, by coming out for one or both of two actions, and
everyone can support Washington state activist Maru Mora-Villalpando by signing
a petition:

On Tuesday, immigrant rights leader Jean Montrevil was
deported to Haiti after residing in the United States for over three decades.
He came to the U.S. from Haiti with a green card in 1986 at the age of 17.
During the height of the crack epidemic, he was convicted of possession of
cocaine and sentenced to 11 years in prison. He served that time. Upon his
release, he married a U.S. citizen, had four children, became a successful
small businessman, as well as an immigrant rights activist. He has had no
further interaction with the criminal justice system. Joining us from Haiti is
Jean Montrevil, who was deported to Haiti on Tuesday. We are also joined by
Jani Cauthen, Jean’s former wife and the mother of three of his children.[…]

View this and subsequent segments, or read the transcripts,
starting here:

ICE tracks down immigrant who spoke to media in SW
Washington: ‘You are the one from the newspaper’

After talking to The Seattle Times about his girlfriend’s
arrest by immigration officials, a Pacific County man was detained himself. He
said an agent told him it was because of what had been written.

By Nina Shapiro, Seattle Times

December 3, 2017

A man who recounted his longtime girlfriend’s arrest in a
Seattle Times story about ramped-up immigration enforcement in Pacific County
last month has now been detained, and says U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) agents told him the arrest was because he was in the
newspaper.[…]

Husband of Peruvian woman taking sanctuary at Boulder church
detained by ICE

By John Bear and Jenn Fields, Denver Post

January 11, 2018

When Ingrid Encalada Latorre’s husband, Eliseo Jurado,
stopped by a Westminster Safeway on Thursday to pick up some items for his
9-year-old stepson, Bryant, and 2-year-old son, Anibal, she didn’t anticipate
that six agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement would snatch him.

“This is an attack on me,” Encalada Latorre said through an
interpreter inside the Boulder Unitarian Universalist Church, where she has
taken sanctuary for less than a month to avoid deportation to her native
Peru.[…]

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